Rebuy Yes or No!

[AJantwan]

Thank you for posting.


The key to rebuys is having an advantage over the field. When you get knocked out by variance you can jump back in and play. This is very much like cash games. You always rebuy in cash games if you have an advantage. If you have no advantage then rebuying fewer bb's is a bad idea
As my title suggests you have to get better to have an advantage. Rebuys help you play more hands per tournament so you can get better. Unless you can just immediately play another tournament which is what you should do instead. The reason being, you will be playing that 100 bb starting stack instead of 30 bb rebuy. You will then get more hands which should lead to more growth, if you are reviewing hands and studying your play.

Hope this helps

I tend to disagree. Assuming that you're playing somewhere you have an advantage...sure it's good to "get back in" since, well, you're a better player than average. But why not just play a different tournament? After all, you're still a better than average player, so yay, you get a chance to play some more. Just like if you had done the re-buy. But here's the catch. With a re-buy, you're buying in for less than the average stack size. Whereas if you just went and played another tournament, you'd have more advantage.

Another way to look at it: if re-buying is good, why not do it five times if needed? Because each time, you're starting stack size gets smaller and smaller relative to the field. It's better to just go enter a new tournament.

(Of course, if another tournament isn't readily available or you bust on the first hand or two, it's a different story, but in general, it's better to just start a new tournament.)

 

[AJantwan]

...also, with rebuys, the game has more variance, not less. Since people know they can rebuy, they're more likely to push with their KJ and you find yourself in a lot more coin flip situations. In the long run, people pushing or calling your push when they shouldn't is going to benefit you, but tournaments already have more variance than cash, so anything that increases that is bad, IMO.

Of course, that has nothing to do with whether you should rebuy. It just makes rebuy tournaments worse, IMO.

 

[rproctor5076]

last night i was rebuying a 3 dollar game with a 20 dollar bankroll and i ended up costing myself my whole bankroll

 

[Datdude1]

I think rebuy's are a double edged sword. Rebuy's can be good to increase the pot size but it can also allow players to call a lot of weak hands that may have a chance to win on the river simply because they know that they can rebuy but without the rebuy they would have folded preflop.

 

[Inequitas]

• I was just curious do you like rebuys or do you hate rebuys?

Hmmm I Do Like The Cut Off when The Game Really Starts For Me, "Add On"s Are Very Useful I Like them, Rebuys Are Only Good For Me If I Arrive Late and Want to Rebuy Chips to Take All Opponents Chips should they Attack with an all in...
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• Do you prefer a MTT with rebuys or Freeze out?

Ummm Don't Have a Preference
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• Is there an advantage for rebuys?

Yes, Mainly To The Casino/ Poker Platform For the Guaranteed Pay Outs Some times They Barely Reach the Pay in's for Pay Outs (My Opinion)
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• Do you need to have more poker skills in freeze outs?

I Don't Know, But Experience Of CardsChat Freeroll Club I'd Say The Skill Level Is Greater Than Most of the Other Games I've Played With Freeze Out
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Stop When The Fun Stops or when it's cold outside

 

[TravelerLloyd]

Wow, sorry to hear that. You was having a bad day


You may have went on tilt and ahosho have taken a break.

Either you were just card dead.

last night i was rebuying a 3 dollar game with a 20 dollar bankroll and i ended up costing myself my whole bankroll

 

[Steve Deeble]

Not a big fan it encourages loose play and extents the tournament length.

 

[narc]

Rebuy are effective when the tournament is worth it and you are already close to the ITM, at the beginning of the tournament I do not like to give Rebuy, I usually like games that do not have Rebuy.

 

[Jilty]

I like freezeouts because it's a capacity to play in, if your playing hyper megastacks then that's another story but I'm not sure if they're in > micro stakes.
If I'm playing well I will re-buy, also if I'm playing bad I will re-buy sometimes but sometimes it's good to just be done and wait for the next day, minimise your losses so they say.

 

[MrGoodFlop]

I don't care much for re-buys, because they extend the tournament length. I play small stakes and I find that at that level, the amount of loose play is the same as in regular tournaments.

 

[mariale_1990]

tournaments with rebuys are not for everyone, regardless of whether you have money to rebuy or not, of course if you play the ideal is that you have to do it, personally I do not like to make repurchases, I have played many rebuy tournaments, many went well and others did not, when I did not just do rebuy because I do not like it, because I did not do very well in the tournament or because there is always a maniac player who loves to bet everything no matter what

 

[krisi77]

I don't like rebuy and I don't do it or maybe very rarely,but there are people who take the advantage of this method and reach finals of big tournaments .

 

[ray89will]

With the fast paced freerolls always in the mix, a rebuy for certain tourneys can be a very useful asset. You have 10 tickets in the 5th step and your sure to make it, right?

 

[mk0523]

If you are going to play rebuys make sure you have an ample bankroll otherwise you can really tear through your balance if you are playing buyins that are too high. Also if you want to be playing at an even playing field so to speak, be prepared to rebuy 2 to 3 times along with using an addon. If you don't do this you are playing at a disadvantage and it would be a better idea to stick to single entry tournaments if those are even still around online.

As you mentioned in one of your posts, if you lose your stack and the levels are really high already, I wouldn't even bother rebuying and just move on from there. Not worth it to try and build from a small stack when there are going to be players with much higher balances than you.

 

[rproctor5076]

if they are playing loose it probably gives you a chance to take them down with a high pocket pair

 

[Aremaz95]

I despise this type of tournaments since many players enter only to throw all in with any hand and buy and repurchase and at the end of the day the variance is very large

 

[molokheia]

hi there
I really don´t like rebuying . You have to play with your means
Besides if you are pushed to rebuy is because you are not doinb well is a
specific tournament. So you should leave
Rgds

 

[althernatea]

For me i think rebuy it not good. I hate it it unfair.

 

[Pufik]

In MTT SNG with rebuy, you should take it, in MTT you should not

 

[fosa17]

Hello, I prefer that there is no repurchase

 

[Sebarios59]

I prefer tournaments without rebuys, to kill or die

 

[Efeb23]

I think the situation with AA vs 76 happens with or without the rebuy button. It's very frustrating for the moment; you hate the game at that point but you come and play for more because you love the game. I just think that you are seeing only the empty part of the glass. The rebuys increases the pot and if you get buzz out with an AA pair you still have the option to rebuy and get back in the game.

 

[ios]

I like tournaments with rebuy, but I don't rebuy.But its a comfort for me to know, that IF I want to come back after loosing all my stack, I could

 

[Chief talking bull]

At Foxwoods they are all rebuy tournaments. I just don't bring extra money with me to rebuy with if I get knocked out. It keeps me on the straight and narrow. However I do encourage the fish to fire as many bullets they have.

 

[AndyGamesPoker]

I have no problem re-buying if it is a game that is well within my proper BR management rules. But if I was taking a shot to begin with or it is close then no.